Cantú Garza was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by UniversidadRicardoPalma de Lima. In 2007 he was named Emeritus Research by CONACYT.

Some of the most exclusive and prestigious universities of Lima are located in Surco, including University of Lima, ESAN University, UniversidadRicardoPalma, and Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Other prestigious high-school institutions such as Markham College, Colegio Santa Maria and Colegio Cambridge are also located within the district.

The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, established in 1917, is the oldest private university. Other private institutions include Universidad del Pacifico, Universidad ESAN, Universidad de Lima, Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista and UniversidadRicardoPalma.

SIL provides instructors and instructional materials for linguistics programs at several major institutions of higher learning around the world. In the United States, these include Biola University, Moody Bible Institute, Houghton College, University of North Dakota, the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and Dallas Theological Seminary. Other universities with SIL programmes include Trinity Western University in Canada, Charles Darwin University in Australia, and UniversidadRicardoPalma in Lima, Peru.

Jackson spend his academic life teaching at the Lancaster University, the University of Warwick, the University of Lincoln and the Hull University, appointed Professor of Management Systems in Hull from 1989 to May 2012. He was Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (New Delhi) and Honorary Professor at the UniversidadRicardoPalma, Lima, Peru. In 1997 he was an Erskine Scholar at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.